Occupation members on board a Liberian -flanted ship that put on flames through a series of attacks in the red sea the ship gave up on Sunday evening when water accepted and marked the first serious attack on the vital corridor for the trade after a month -long campaign of Jemens Houthi rebels There.
The suspicion of the attack on the Greek Bulk carrier technology seas immediately fell on the Houthis, especially when a security company saw that it hit the ship cross-bomb boats after it was attacked by small weapons and rocket drives grenades. The rebels’ media reported on the attack, but did not claim. It can take hours or even days for you to recognize an attack.
A renewed Houthi campaign against shipping could move back to the USA and the western armed forces, especially after President Donald Trump aimed at the rebels in a large air rod campaign.
Shortly before midnight in Yemen, Israel’s military gave a warning for three ports held by Houthi and said that air strikes would start shortly in Hodeidah, Ras Isa and Salif on the Ras al-Khatib power plant.
Attack comes at a delicate time
The ship attack comes to a sensitive moment in the Middle East, since a possible ceasefire hangs in balance in the Israel Hamas War and Iran follows the negotiations on its nuclear program American air strikes that are aimed at the most sensitive atomic positions in an Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.
“It probably serves as a message that the Houthis continues to have the ability and willingness to go on strike in strategic maritime goals regardless of diplomatic developments,” wrote Mohammad al-Basha, a Yemen analyst at the Basha Report Risk Advisory company.
The British trade center of the United Kingdom’s British military for the first time said that an armed security team had returned to a first attack on the uninhibited ship and that the “situation continues”. It described the attack as 100 kilometers southwest of Hodeida, Yemen, which is held by the country’s Houthi rebels.
“Examine the authorities,” it said. Later the ship said after he was “hit by unknown projectiles”.
Possibly a large escalation
AMBREY, a private maritime security company, issued a warning message that a dealer ship was “attacked by eight skiffs while transferring to the north in the Red Meer”.
Ambrey later said the ship was also attacked by bomb -related drone boats, which could mark a large escalation. It was said that two drone boats were beaten, while two more had been destroyed by the armed guards on board.
The British Commercial Center for Maritime Handelsbetrieb said that the ship had absorbed water and its crew had given up the ship.
The US navy The 5th fleet in the Middle East Referred questions to the central command of the military, which said that he was aware of the incident without elaboration.
Moammar al -yani, the Minister of Information for the present government of Yemen, who opposed the Houthis, identified the attacked ship as a magical sea and accused the rebels for the attack. The ship had had an armed security team on board in the area in which the attack took place and had driven to the north.
“The attack also proves once again that the Houthis are only one front for an Iranian scheme X.
The owners of the Magic Seas did not respond to a request for comment.
Houthi attacks came through Israel-Hamas War
The Houthi rebels started Rocket and drone attacks against commercial and military ships in the region in what the leadership of the group described as one End efforts Israel’s offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The group’s al-Masirah Satellite News Channel recognized the attack, but offered no other comment when she said a speech by his secret leader. Abdul Malik al-Houthi. On the Ambrey, however, said that the ship’s goal had hit “the established Houthi target profile” without going up.
Between November 2023 and January 2025, the Houthis aimed on more than 100 merchant ships with rockets and drones that sank and sank two of them. kill four seafarers. This has significantly reduced the trade flow through the corridor of the Red Sea, in which it typically move 1 trillion US dollar from goods every year.
The Houthis made attacks in a self -imposed armistice until the United States started a wide attack against the rebels in mid -March. This ended weeks later and the Houthis did not attack a ship, even though they continued occasionally Rocket attacks on Israel. On Sunday, the group claimed to start a rocket in Israel that the Israeli military said that it had intercepted. Shipment The Red Sea has increased in the past few weeks, although it is still lower than normal.
In the meantime, a broader decadulent war in Yemen between the Houthis and the government supported by a Saudi Arabia coalition remains in a patient situation. The Yemeni Coast Guard, which is loyal to the banished government, has been involved in a fire battle with at least one ship in the Red Sea Also in the past.
Pirates from Somalia also operated in the region, although they usually tried to conquer ships to rob or search their crews. But neither the Yemeni coast guard nor the pirates are known for using drone boats in their attacks.
